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Date:      Sun, 3 Jun 2007 16:53:27 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        "Kip Macy" <kip.macy@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Intel PRO/10GbE CX4? General 10Gb tips?
Message-ID:  <18019.10846.537421.529675@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <b1fa29170706011841x6af33b3co74c9e760ce6cd350@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <4660A46B.3010003@umn.edu> <b1fa29170706011708q3777be6v2636830395096166@mail.gmail.com> <01e801c7a4b3$a4bcb400$b6db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <b1fa29170706011841x6af33b3co74c9e760ce6cd350@mail.gmail.com>

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Kip Macy writes:
 > On 6/1/07, Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk> wrote:
 > > Wasn't Jack Vogel (Intel?) only talking the other day about
 > > committing a new 10Gb Intel driver.
 > >
 > > The "New driver coming soon" thread on current / net.
 > 
 > I'm talking about what is in the tree in the moment. I'll have to
 > withhold judgement on ix until we can actually use it. With luck he'll
 > have time to adapt it to FreeBSD. There are a number of other 10GigE
 > drivers cards that are "supported" by FreeBSD, but they take the linux
 > shim approach and tend to be 3x slower.

Note that even on Linux, many of the other 10GbE NICS don't offer the
same line-rate 10GbE performance that the Myricom and Chelsio adaptors
do.

Drew



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